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Mehdi Hashemi Mehdi Hashemi, the jailed son of moderate cleric Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, has been transferred to hospital to undergo heart tests, his lawyer…

More than 95 Iranian social and political activists have issued a letter urging the women at Evin Prison to end their hunger strike out…

Twenty-six political prisoners at Iran’s Rejaishahr Prison have issued a statement that condemns the recent attack at Evin Prison’s women’s ward and calls for…

Darius Khondji Iranian cinematographer, Darius Khondji has been nominated in the 25th European Film Awards for his work on Michael Haneke’s “Amour.” Haneke’s “Amour”…

Russia has taken over broadcasting the Islamic Republic’s satellite programs after the European company Eutelset stopped dealing with the Iranian government due to the…

Tension brewed in Iranian Parliament when the head of Parliament, Ali Larijani, announced that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been summoned to appear before MPs within…

Reza Shahabi The Iranian judiciary has reduced the prison term of labour activist Reza Shahabi from six years in jail to four, human rights…

Western countries are trying to create “general discontent in Iran” by putting sanctions on medication and drugs, Iran’s Foreign Ministry says. Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast…

Mehdi Hashemi An opposition website reports that the Hashemi Rafsanjani family is seriously concerned about the health of Mehdi Hashemi in Evin prison and…

caricaturist: Mana Neyestani

Thirty-three female prisoners at Evin Prison have called on the warden to issue an official apology for the “offensive attack” they suffered, opposition websites…

Vahid Asghari Vahid Asghari, a jailed Iranian accused of “launching pornographic and anti-Islam websites”, has written two letters to the Iranian judiciary to file…